Theos-Talk Archives (December 2005 Message tt00345)

Hello Alaya,
Just as a point of clarification HPB and her teachers also suggested a similar period of 
time.

Key to theosophy page 145 in the chapter 'on the kamaloka and devachan':

"ENQUIRER. What of the latter? How long does the incarnating Ego remain in the 
Devachanic state?

THEOSOPHIST. This, we are taught, depends on the degree of spirituality andthe merit or 
demerit of the last incarnation. The average time is from ten to fifteen centuries, as I 
already told you."

Just as a personal opinion I think that the question of reincarnation and metempsychosis is 
an interesting one.
I would suggest that in many areas of the teachings our understandings are quite clunky 
and partial.

In the devachan letter the mahatma suggests that 'we' reincarnate on other `planets'. 

Where my own mind and imagination have gone on this is, what is a `planet' a state of 
consciousness perhaps?

Is the physical planet simply a representation of a particular state of being?

Perhaps we are a little Earthocentric in that we think this manifestation of 'earth' we find 
ourselves in is the only one.

Maybe this `Earth' has many different manifestations in this multiverse andmaybe we 
don't necessarily return to the same planet in the same way that we cant step into the 
same river twice.

Another musing is maybe `Atlantis' and `Lemuria' can be seen in a similar way.

As I say these are only musings but who knows maybe multi' dimensions play a role in this 
process of reincarnation?


Regards

Perry 

--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "Alaya" <lalaya7@y...> wrote:
>
> what do you think about these absurd statements made by leadbeater
> that people reincarnate only after a long space of time, like 700,
> 1000 years... and that a 'elevated being' would take 1200 years to return?
> he also said that 800 years after his death he would reincarnate in
> California.
> 
> What do you think about this teaching of his?
> I thing it is harmful to theosophy and can make people have erroneous
> notions about reincarnation.
> All those who have had past lifes experiencies know that the average
> is one incarnation for century
> we also know that many masters did return in other bodies in the next
> centuries...
> sow how could leadbeater say something so foolish as 'people are
> reborn every 800 years'?
> how could someone who said Besant was the PET of Master M. in
> Atlantis... who fake others lives and invented the 'real' story for
> life in Mars and then says this stupidity be taken seriously??
>